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Tine Melzer Tine Melzer uses language as material. The amazement and enchantment of language and its mechanisms between humans is the nucleus of all of her art work; it is situated on the edge of theory and practice, knowing and seeing, describing and showing, text and image. She holds a BA degree in both philosophy and fine arts and currently reads for a Phd in the Arts to connect both disciplines. The work aims to host concepts on language in order to give language sensory tactility and spatial visual dimensions. Melzer can be seen as a ‘translator’ from theoretical aspects on language – and our own experience within it – into visual perception. The work aims to visualize questions about our lives with verbal language in the context of visual art, which most people experience and accept as a language in one way or another. These questions and the resulting art works are simple and purified. Melzer’s work is multidisciplinary: it employs means of sculpture, installation, graphic printwork, book art and writing. Taking the world literally and having language show itself in the reduced undertakings of creation is a key effort in her work. What might sound dry and theoretical, are simple forms for exciting phenomena of ordinary language: our jokes, gossip, doubts, failures and aha-moments. The language-games we play are the material for the work, the work succeeds if we can recognize our own behaviour or experiences in the structure called ‘language’. Her visual work was shown lately at Projectroom of IMMA, Dublin, Museum voor hedendaagse Kunst MuhKA Antwerp, Belgium, de Appel and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She has realized the permanent installation HIER in public space of Nuremberg, Germany and teaches internationally. published for Art/Writing: Writers, Writing and Exhibition-Making, The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, Co Leitrim, Ireland, 2010 Tine Melzer The interdisciplinary work of visual artist Tine Melzer primarily focuses on the coded nature of language and aims at deconstructing the fears and desires bound to its imaginary. Her theoretical and practical research challenges our behaviour and codes in language. Melzer studied visual arts and philosophy and has been a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. She teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and currently reads for a PhD at the Planetary Collegium (M-node). Signs and sign-systems, codes and limits of systems, routine and misunderstanding, convention and rules, tautologies and mechanisms of doubt and failure are important departure points for the work. What happens at the edge of image and text? How do common places in language, such as metaphors and proverbial expressions, look like? How can simple transformations into the visual convey shifts and ruptures of meaning? Melzer bases her recent work on strategies of collaboration with colleagues from her own or neighboring disciplines; this transdisciplinary approach aims to establish methods of dialogue and language games in order for ‘language to show itself’. Currently the visual work increasingly involves concepts of language as a social network: the notion of ‘meaning as use’ shifts to the users themselves. published for Artist Residency Program IMMA, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
Tine Melzer’s research work is supported by Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, bouwkunst en vormgeving, Amsterdam and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam. Her work is represented by Motive Gallery Amsterdam and Johan Deumens Artists’ Books, Haarlem. Please contact her via tine(at)tokyo.com |
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